Letting go to gain something back?

I was reflecting lately about letting go and how feeling the emotions instead of dismissing them could be scary but also very liberating.

When you try to hustle and work hard because you don’t want to be seen as weak or lazy, you might be compensating for your lack of confidence and doing so will likely lead to burnout. But if you change your baseline, your point of origin from which you base your state and you let go of the feeling of inferiority, you end up at a different level on the scale and the effort is greatly diminished to obtain results.

If you’re on a ladder and you try to change a light bulb at the ceiling, if you try to reach it but you stay on the first step, you might have to stretch a bit more than if you were to climb at least one more step and do the same job with fewer efforts on your part.

Trying to compensate for lack is exhausting so that’s why making sure your baseline is at the level you want or need is essential.

Now, I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s not necessarily hard either: finding what prevents you from stepping up will help you figure this out. It could be a past event or something somebody told you years ago that affected you deeply and you don’t even remember or see how it could be related until you start digging in your subconscious.

That’s something I started to do this week and I have to say after writing my last post, I felt liberated to let it all out and feel it instead of just pushing it aside and thinking how it doesn’t matter and I should be stronger than that. The next day I was thinking about it, I didn’t feel the charged emotion from the night before, and to me, this is huge.

Allowing yourself to feel the emotion can help, and I strongly recommend you to give yourself the chance to at least try and see if it does help you too.

What do you think? Let’s talk!